Women's Position in Pakistan: Sociocultural Effects of Islamization

Weiss, Anita M.

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“…The preceding meta-analysis of gender wage discrimination also uncovers an important concluding of the gender space by roughly one percent per year from an average of more than 30 percent of the female wage (Jarrell and Stanley, 2004).In past, international advanced agencies such as the United Nations Development Programmes, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, and the United States Agency for International Development have done much to be responsible for the western stereotype of women's place being solely in the home and nurturing her children. This is a role which in fact is unknown to most Third World women, including a majority of Pakistani women, who must also work hard in the fields or trade in the marketplace for their family's subsistence (Weiss, 1985).…”

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confidence: 99%

Outcomes of Gender Discrimination, A Study of Female Workers in Banking Sector of Pakistan

Khalid¹,

Aroosh²

2014

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Outcomes of Gender Discrimination, A Study of Female Workers in Banking Sector of Pakistan

Khalid¹,

Aroosh²

2014

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“…The WAF, including their female lawyers and other members, met with a tough resistance and condemned limitations of the Islamization program comprising the most objected and controversial recommendations of Ansari Commission that affected the political status of women (Weiss, 1985;Imran & Munir, 2018). This commission was appointed by General Ziaul-Haq's government on July 10th, 1983, with the purpose to submit proposals regarding the system of government in Islam, which imposed strict conditions on women's political participation.…”

Section: The Secularists and Zia's Islamizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s rights in Pakistan: A study of religious and alternate discourses regarding women’s participation in politics

Ahmad

Aman

2021

Lib. Arts Soc. Sci. Int. J.

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This study aims to evaluate the religious and the alternate discourses on women’s political rights in Pakistan; such debates were heightened and intensified as a result of General Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamization vision and policies implemented between 1977 to 1988. Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamization is argued to have polarized women’s participation in politics and challenged the standing of feminist groups, Islamic feminists, and secularists, which made Islam and women’s political participation the subject of debates that are still relevant in the case of Pakistan. The paper argues that Pakistani state’s Islamic disposition in general and Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamization in particular provoked religious conservatism and promoted gender-based discrimination that deeply affected women’s political participation. This study seeks to reconcile the different perspectives of Islamic and secular feminism for realizing the goals of effective participation of women in politics. The paper uses a qualitative research method concentrating on thematic analysis, which employs for identifying and analyzing patterns or themes within qualitative data analysis approaches. The findings suggest that in the case of women rights, Islamic feminism and secular feminism are compatible and complementary, and a synthesis of both is imperative to realize the effective participation of women in politics.

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“…A Women's Division was created in the Cabinet Secretariat in 1979 and the Sixth National Plan -a plan that was to provide a broad framework for the development of the country for the period 1983-88 -included a chapter on women's development for the first time (Korson & Maskiell, 1985;; Weiss, 1985). This amendment will not only make public and private environment safer for women but will open up the path for more women to pursue livelihood with dignity.…”

Section: Women's Work As a Contribution To National Developmentmentioning

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“…However, they regulated the appearance of working women rather than the type of work that was considered acceptable for women (Korson & Maskiell, 1985;Weiss, 1985). In 1979, female newscasters on state-run television were ordered to cover their heads with a dupatta Pakistani headscarf (Weiss, 1985: 874;Haq, 1996: 166) and some years later a government directive called on them to stop wearing heavy make-up and experimental hairstyles (Korson & Maskiell, 1985: 609).…”

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Discourses of gender identities and gender roles in Pakistan: Women and non-domestic work in political representations

Grünenfelder

2013

Women's Studies International Forum

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This paper aims to explore some of the manifold and changing links that official Pakistani state discourses forged between women and work from the 1940s to the late 2000s. The focus of the analysis is on discursive spaces that have been created for women engaged in non-domestic work. Starting from an interpretation of the existing academic literature, this paper argues that Pakistani women's non-domestic work has been conceptualised in three major ways: as a contribution to national development, as a danger to the nation, and as non-existent. The paper concludes that although some conceptualisations of work have been more powerful than others and, at specific historical junctures, have become part of concrete state policies, alternative conceptualisations have always existed alongside them. Disclosing the state's implication in the discursive construction of working women's identities might contribute to the destabilisation of hegemonic concepts of gendered divisions of labour in Pakistan. Discourses of Gender Identities and Gender Roles in Pakistan: Women and Non-domestic Work in Political Representations AbstractThis paper aims to explore some of the manifold and changing links that official Pakistani state discourses forged between women and work from the 1940s to the late 2000s. The focus of the analysis is on discursive spaces that have been created for women engaged in non-domestic work. Starting from an interpretation of the existing academic literature, this paper argues that Pakistani women's non-domestic work has been conceptualised in three major ways: as a contribution to national development, as a danger to the nation, and as non-existent. The paper concludes that although some conceptualisations of work have been more powerful than others and, at specific historical junctures, have become part of concrete state policies, alternative conceptualisations have always existed alongside them. Disclosing the state's implication in the discursive construction of working women's identities might contribute to the destabilisation of hegemonic concepts of gendered divisions of labour in Pakistan.

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Women's Position in Pakistan: Sociocultural Effects of Islamization

Cited by 15 publications

References 2 publications

Outcomes of Gender Discrimination, A Study of Female Workers in Banking Sector of Pakistan

Outcomes of Gender Discrimination, A Study of Female Workers in Banking Sector of Pakistan

Women’s rights in Pakistan: A study of religious and alternate discourses regarding women’s participation in politics

Discourses of gender identities and gender roles in Pakistan: Women and non-domestic work in political representations

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